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SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 



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FLORENCE WIIXARD DAY 



A FOU,OWER OF TRUTH 



"THERE IS NO RELIGION HIGHER THAN TRUTH 



PRESS OF W. F. ROBERTS 

WASHINGTON, D. C. 

1904 



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Entered according to act of Congress 

in the year 1904 

by FLORENCE WILLARD DAY 

in the office of the Librarian of Congress 

at Washington 



CONTENTS 

Contents 1 

The Prayer of the Followers 

of Truth ..... 3 

Man's Ideal of Himself . . 5 

Affirmations for the Realization 

of the True Self ... 7 

Knowledge 9 

Christ Consciousness ... 12 

God. Universal and Individual, 

Personal and Impersonal . 14 

The Church Universal . . 20 

" Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ 

and Thou Shalt be Saved' ' . 26 

Affirmations for the Realization 

of the Christ Consciousness . 29 

The Divine Alchemy or Transmu- 
tation of Evil into Good . 30 

The Law of Equity ... 42 

Each One in His Own Place . 47 

Unity in Multiplicity ... 53 



Voices 

Inspiration. What it is 
Unfolded . 



and 



FROM 



The Power Within 

Health 

Metaphysical Healing 

Affirmations for Freedom 
the Delusion of Evil 

The Law of Attraction 

Peace .... 

The Spiritual Sun . 

Statement of Being 

An I Am Realization . 

Some Questions and Answers 
Relating to Metaphysical 
Subjects 



How 



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The Prayer 

of THE 

Followers of Truth. 

"The Glorious Truth, revealed by the 
Supreme Lord of the Universe, is produc- 
tive of immediate results, — is not bound by 
the limitations of time, — is conducive to 
salvation, — is open to all, —is a fitting object 
of contemplation for the wise who ponder 
it in their hearts. May this Truth guide 
me. I put my trust in Truth now and for- 



Man does not hold the perfect ideal of 
himself, therefore he manifests imperfec- 
tion. He expresses the idea, or image he 
has in mind, in regard to himself. He is 
continuously building according to the idea 
or plan held in mind. 

He is his own builder, and his body is 
the temple, or house, that he builds, there- 
fore if the temple is defective the fault is 
in the plan, which should be reconstructed. 



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Affirmations 

for THE 

Realization of the True Self. 

]HE truth is, that I am a Spiritual 
being now, and always have been. 
Perfect as my Father in heaven is perfect, 
for I am made in His image and likeness. 
Therefore there is not, never has been, and 
never will be, anything in me that is not 
in my Father. 

All that my Father has, is mine, richly 
to enjoy. I am one with Him, and it is 
utterly impossible to be separated from 
Him. I am everything that He is, Perfect 
Life, Perfect Intelligence, Perfect Love, 
Perfect Health. In Him, and through Him, 



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I possess all things; therefore there can be 
no lack of any kind whatever. I can want 
for nothing, for all my needs are supplied. 
I can feel no lack in any way, as I possess 
all things. 

I am forever secure in the abundant 
providence of His loving care for my 
welfare in all ways. We are one; what He 
is, I am. This is my divine birthright, 
which I can never lose. I will abide forever 
in the consciousness of the Truth. Amen. 



KNOWLEDGE 




KNOWLEDGE. 

." For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. " 

"But when that which is perfect is come, then that 
which is in part shall be done away." 

" When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood 
as a child, I thought as a child : but when I be- 
came a man, I put away childish things." 

"For now we see through a glass, darkly ; but then 
face to face: now I know in part ; but then shall 
I know even as also I am known." 

I Cor. 13: 9, 10, 11, 12. 

[E are not always to be in swaddling 
clothes, and subject to external 
forces and conditions, because of our ignor- 
ance of them. 

Knowledge gives power, and as we be- 
come familiar with the laws and processes 
of nature we learn how to manipulate and 
control them. 

It is through conformity and co-opera- 
tion with law that we control and use it. 
By defiance, or disregard of law, we may be 
overwhelmed and crushed by the same power 
that can be used to our advantage if we learn 
how to work in conformity with it. 



10 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

A little knowledge is a dangerous 
thing, therefore we cannot know too much. 
Schopenhaur says, " Every man takes the 
limits of his own field of vision for the limits 
of the world." One who limits himself in 
any way is limited in power. 

Open the windows wide and let the light 
flow in from every source; break down every 
barrier that would interfere with the pur- 
suit of knowledge, for through knowledge 
comes wisdom and the power of discrimina- 
tion. Prove all things and hold fast to that 
which is good. 

By learning the false, we know the 
true, and I doubt much if there is any 
other way. 

Hold no one back from the pursuit of 
knowledge in the way that seems best to 
him. We who travelled over the path, may 
yearn to save others from some of the bitter 



KNOWLEDGE 11 

experiences that we may have passed 
through, but no one is satisfied with the 
experience of another; he wants to try it 
himself, and certainly has the right to do 
so, if he so elects, for it is the only way he 
can learn the lesson and make the knowledge 
his own possession; it is then a part of him- 
self, and no one can take it from him. A 
thing once learned can never be unlearned. 
"All knowledge is for the purpose of 
leading us into a realization of the omni- 
present consciousness of the Divine." 




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CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS. 

T is only when one has attained to 
that degree of Spiritual unf oldment 
so he has the same consciousness that Jesus 
had that he can understand the teachings 
of Jesus. One interprets all things from 
the standpoint of his development in con- 
sciousness. While he is dwelling in a 
false state of consciousness he is looking 
through a glass darkly. There are, com- 
paratively, very few so-called ministers of 
the Gospel who have the illumination to 
enable them to interpret the Gospel cor- 
rectly, consequently so much false teaching, 
arising from a lack of understanding of the 
Truth. 

It is the Truth that makes us free, not 
some person's opinion in regard to what 
Truth is, or doctrine or method of teaching. 



CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS 13 

Every man shall be taught of God, of 
the Spirit of Truth, then he will know 
Truth at first hand, and in its purity. 

" No man cometh to the Father but by 
me," the Christ, the Spirit of Truth, not 
the man Jesus, but the universal Spirit 
called Christ, which manifested through 
the personality of Jesus. 



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GOD. 

Universal and Individual, Personal 
and Impersonal. 

ROM time immemorial this subject 
has been the cause of more thought 
and discussion than any other known to man, 
because of its supreme importance to the 
well-being of mankind. It is the great cen- 
tral point of interest upon which everything 
else depends and around which all things 
revolve. 

Each one has some conception of Deity, 
true or false, spiritual or material, accord- 
ing to his education and development, by 
which his life is influenced and governed. 
The kind of God he believes in will be his 
own conception or ideal, no two persons 
believing in exactly the same God, because 
of differing conceptions, each perceiving 



GOD 15 

and judging from his own standpoint in con- 
sciousness. Some judge Him to be imper- 
sonal Spirit only, while many believe Him 
to be a personal being; each class seeing 
Him in the one aspect alone, which has been 
the cause of much disagreement and contro- 
versy all adown the ages. 

Now all the trouble arises from the sep- 
aration and seeing Him in the one aspect 
only; and all that is needed is for both to 
come together in unity and see Him as a 
whole, instead of a partial being, to restore 
harmony. 

God, if Infinite, must be all-inclusive, 
therefore of necessity He must be both im- 
personal and personal — first, universal Spirit 
or primal essence, then individual— imper- 
sonal as the omnipresent principle of life 
and intelligence, animating and permeating 



16 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

all forms of expression, and personal as indi- 
vidualized Spirit embodied in form. 

The personified God, whom Jesus called 
The Father, was the Spirit individualized 
within himself, the indwelling God to whom 
he looked for a response to all his needs, a 
never-failing source of supply. He said, ' ' I 
and the Father are one, and when ye see 
me ye see the Father, " which could have no 
other meaning than that God was manifest 
in, and through his personality. He also 
said "I am in the Father and the Father in 
me and I am in you and you in me," which 
could mean nothing less than that God was 
manifesting in and through the personality 
of all others as well as in himself, whether 
they were conscious of it or not. Jesus was 
conscious of his relationship to, and union 
with, the Father as his immortal and 
beloved son— the off-spring and manifesta- 



GOD 17 

tion of his Father, the source of his being. 
He knew that the Father, Son and Holy- 
Spirit were only different aspects of the 
one, and were all within himself, for he had 
made the at-one-ment— had come into a 
realization of his union and oneness with 
God, thereby overcoming the world with its 
belief in separation, the cause of all sin, 
sickness and death, so-called evil. 

In God, the universal essence or sub- 
stance underlying, and within all things or 
forms, we live, move, and have our being. 
As the all pervading material of the uni- 
verse, out of which all visible things come 
forth into form and expression, it is universal 
and impersonal, having a positive and nega- 
tive aspect represented in the masculine 
and feminine principles, by means of which 
all manifestation is brought forth. 

As it takes form by virtue of its in- 



18 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

herent power, so to do, it becomes individual- 
ized with an etheric body and consciousness 
becoming separated, as it were, from the 
universal substance, although still within, 
and of it, with an identity of its own. It 
has now become a center of activity and 
begins to attract to itself from the universal 
substance the material it needs to formu- 
late, build and sustain a body as an instru- 
ment to express with and through, consti- 
tuting a personality. 

At first the life is expressed through 
the most elementary forms, the amoeba 
being the smallest known to science, and 
then on up through the various stages of 
evolution to man, the highest expression of 
life and intelligence, the only difference be- 
tween the amoeba and man being one of 
degree in unfoldment of consciousness, the 
mineral consciousness evolving into the 



GOD 19 

vegetable, the vegetable into the animal, 
and the animal into the human. The human 
is now in process of unf oldment into a higher 
type, the divine or divinely human. We are 
in process of transformation into God-men 
and are gradually becoming aware of our- 
selves as children of the Infinite with an 
eternal heritage of immortal youth, health, 
and happiness. We are learning to look to 
God as our common parent and to regard all 
men as our brothers, in fact as one large 
family with a common parentage Father- 
Mother God. 



20 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 



THE CHURCH UNIVERSAL. 
HE Church of Christ is universal, 
and the true members are all who 




truly know and follow Him, whether in any 
of the church organizations or outside of all 
such. It is a Spiritual Association of Con- 
secrated Souls who know and love the Truth. 
This is the true Church of God, and the 
members are the elect spoken of in the 
Scriptures. 

On the Spiritual plane there is one Life, 
one Soul, one Church. The barriers and 
limitations that exist on the earthly plane 
do not exist there. There all souls are 
joined in pure love and harmony in the one 
universal Church of Christ. 

The earth plane is the kindergarten, in 
which souls unfold the individual conscious- 
ness of their divine nature. There are many 
grades and degrees in this school of unfold- 



THE CHURCH UNIVERSAL 21 

ment. Some souls are still in the first grade, 
where the understanding is so undeveloped 
that they can be taught only through and by 
means of symbols. They are not yet capa- 
ble of comprehending Truth in the abstract. 
Spiritual truths must be illustrated to them 
by means of object lessons in order to reach 
their understanding, and can only be im- 
parted to them gradually and in small pro- 
portions adapted to their degree of recep- 
tivity. They are infants in the school of 
existence and must be treated accordingly. 
There are still other souls, who have ad- 
vanced to a little higher grade, who are 
capable of a little stronger diet, but are still 
dependent on the symbolical or objective 
illustration of the lessons that are set for 
them to learn, and so on from grade to grade 
in the path of unfoldment until they have 
graduated into the God - consciousness, 



22 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

where through realization of union with 
God, they have become illuminated with 
divine Love and Wisdom, having knowledge 
of all truth in its purity. They will then 
have been emancipated from all sense con- 
ditions and necessity of limitations. The 
knowledge of the Truth in its unadulterated 
state has redeemed and liberated them from 
bondage to forms of any and every kind. 
Then only can they be in conscious knowl- 
edge of oneness with each other and all 
life. They have risen above the need of 
Institutions which serve as protective 
barriers in their undeveloped state and 
necessarily give a sense of separation. As 
souls advance in realization of truth and 
emancipation from ignorance they come 
consciously nearer to each other. 

Those who have become purified from 
all belief in the false and apparent, called 



THE CHURCH UNIVERSAL 23 

evil, are nearest to the center or heart of 
God, and of conscious communion and one- 
ness with each other. This is the com- 
munion of saints, those who have become 
sanctified or purified from ignorance. As 
others reach this state of purity, they come 
into conscious union with the emancipated 
ones who were in advance of them. When 
this union takes place there can be no more 
separation, and all will dwell together in 
perfect peace and harmony. 

The kingdom of heaven will have been 
attained, and there will be no more sorrow, 
sickness, nor death, for the former things 
will have passed away. That is the knowl- 
edge of God (Truth) which frees the soul 
from the bondage of ignorance. 

This heavenly state can, and will be 
realized here upon the earth at will, through 
unfoldment of consciousness and develop- 



24 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

ment of the Christ within. The ideal must 
and will be actualized. The kingdom of 
God must be made manifest in the earth, 
right here and now, in our physical bodies, 
and conditions. All forms of expression 
are first conceived in the consciousness as 
an idea, or set of ideas, co-ordinated, which 
makes the ideal, and is the word which in 
the beginning is with God, or in Spirit, 
then the word becomes objectified in the 
material or physical, that is, the word 
becomes flesh, matter, material. 

This is the process of all creation. "In 
the beginning was the word, and the word 
was with God, and the word was God." 
' 'And the word was made flesh and dwelt 
among us," as St. John has put it. 

That which is first conceived in con- 
sciousness becomes objectified in matter, or 
material form, therefore the kingdom of 



THE CHURCH UNIVERSAL 25 

heaven must first be conceived in our con- 
sciousness before it can become manifested 
in outward conditions and environment. 
To the degree that any soul has realized and 
manifested this in his own life and environ- 
ment can he be a helper to other souls who 
are seeking the kingdom. 




26 spiritual realizations 

''Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ 
and Thou Shalt be Saved/ ' 

|HATEVER we place our faith in is 
made manifest to us. That we 
believe in is attracted to us, whatever its 
nature, whether good or evil; therefore if 
we would be saved from our sins, we should 
transfer our faith in the sin in which it is 
placed to the saving power, which is Christ, 
the Truth, the Redeemer. 

We are all using faith constantly, or 
rather misusing it, and we get results 
according to whether it is in good or evil. 
Faith is a mighty power, which is very 
little understood by mankind in general, 
therefore ignorantly used in ways that it 
should not be if one would live a happy and 
successful life. If we believe that anything 
will harm us, our faith in it will cause it to 



BELIEVE ON THE LORD 27 

do so. If we believe in sickness, our faith 
in it will make us subject to sickness. A 
belief in poverty will attract to us that 
condition and environment. 

The effect will inevitably result from 
the cause, and faith is the cause of the 
manifestations. Therefore we should be 
very careful as to how we use our faith. 
We are told that if we would believe in 
Jesus Christ we would be saved from all 
sin, from sickness and death. He is the 
saving power or principle within, and 
when we place our faith in that Power we 
are saved because our faith is placed in 
the good which will attract the good, as 
like attracts like. 

Christ is the healing, saving principle 
and Jesus is that principle made manifest 
in the flesh. So when we believe on Jesus 
Christ our faith causes Him to come into 



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manifestation in us; that is the word made 
flesh. While we believe in two powers, 
good and evil — God and Devil— our faith is 
divided, resulting in a mixed state of 
affairs, thereby preventing a full mani- 
festation of the good, or Jesus Christ in us. 
We are out of harmony with the Divine 
Will, and suffering is the result. 

Faith attracts to us the thing feared, 
whatever it may be, thus enabling us to 
say in the words of Job, "The thing which 
I greatly feared has come upon me." His 
faith in the thing feared had attracted it to 
him, for faith is the attracting power, or 
magnet which will attract either good or 
ill, according to which we believe in. "As 
a man thinketh in his heart, so is he" — 
that is, as he believes in his innermost 
consciousness, that will he express or 
bring into manifestation. 



AFFIRMATIONS 29 

AFFIRMATIONS 

For the Realization of the Christ 
Consciousness. 

Christ is My Center. 

I am in my center, which is Christ. 

I am in Christ and Christ is in me. 

I am one with Christ, there is no separation. 

In Christ is all power, all love, all goodness, 
all glory. 

While standing in my center there can be 
no loss, no disappointment, no failure. 

If I be lifted up I will draw all men unto 
me. 

Christ is the attracting power. 

Through Christ I shall overcome all things, 
all adverse conditions. 

Christ is the unifying power ; through him 
all will be brought into unity, love and 
fellowship. 

All who find their center in Him are at-one- 
ment with Him and with each other. 



30 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

THE DIVINE ALCHEMY 

OR 

TRANSMUTATION OF EVIL 
INTO GOOD. 

"Be not overcome of evil, but overcome 
evil with good." 

pSSEjESUS taught the doctrine of non- 
EJlQgli resistance to evil — a radical de- 
parture from the old Mosaic law of an ' 'eye 
for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth/ ' which 
had been in operation among the Jews 
previous to his time. ' ' But I say unto you, 
That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall 
smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him 
the other also. And if any man will sue 
thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let 
him have thy cloak also. And whosoever 
shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him 
twain. Give to him that asketh thee, and 
from him that would borrow of thee turn 



THE DIVINE ALCHEMY 31 

not thou away. Ye have heard that it hath 
been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, 
and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, 
Love your enemies, bless them that curse 
you, do good to them that hate you, and 
pray for them which despitefully use you 
and persecute you ; That ye may be the 
children of your Father which is in heaven: 
for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil 
and on the good, and sendeth rain on the 
just and on the unjust. For if ye love 
them which love you, what reward have 
ye ? do not even the publicans the same ? 
And if ye salute your brethren only, what 
do ye more than others ? do nqt even the 
publicans so ? Be ye therefore perfect, 
even as your Father which is in heaven is 
perfect/ ' 

To a superficial mind this might seem 
to imply that one should weakly succumb 



32 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

to anything that might assail him, thereby 
allowing himself to be overcome of evil 
rather than resist, which would indeed be 
both unwise and foolish. This, surely, 
could not have been the meaning and pur- 
pose of Jesus ' teaching, for he distinctly 
pointed out that evil could be rendered non- 
effective and enemies changed into friends 
by the practice of love and kindness. 
Hatred can never by any means be over- 
come by hate, so the only way to get rid of 
an enemy, is to convert him into a friend, 
which can be done only through the practice 
of love and good deeds — returning good for 
evil. Kill your enemy with kindness. 

This not only applies to our fellow 
beings, but just as effectually to evil in any 
of its forms, sin, sickness, poverty, and all 
inharmonious conditions of whatever nature. 
They are in reality, conditions only f which 



THE DIVINE ALCHEMY 33 

can be changed at will by the application 
of the right principles. Opposition and 
resistance arouse antagonism and give 
power to the thing resisted, and it comes 
back to us like a boomerang, which will in 
turn cause a counteraction, and there will 
be a continued action and re-action, until 
the force is exhausted and there is no more 
strength left to fight with. Then, in all 
probability, nervous prostration or some 
more undesirable condition will ensue. 

Those who have learned to see the 
good only in every experience, have dis- 
covered the secret of a healthy, happy, and 
successful life, and the true method for 
overcoming every obstacle in the path and 
difficulty in life. It is the only true and 
successful way to overcome disease, crime, 
poverty, and every ill that flesh is heir to. 
When understandingly applied to any of 



34 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

those conditions, the effect is really magi- 
cal. It is indeed the "divine alchemy.' ' 
So-called evil is transmuted into good 
through non-resistance, and seeing and 
affirming the good, until it really is changed 
into good. "If thine eye be single thy 
whole body shall be full of light.' ' If we 
are double eyed, seeing both good and evil, 
we are recognizing two powers in the 
universe, contending with each other as to 
which shall have the supremacy. Out of 
this belief in two opposing powers, grew 
the original conception of God and Devil. 
If God is Omnipresent Spirit, the universal 
substance, or intelligence that pervades all 
space, and is within, and underlying all 
manifestation, there can be nothing but 
good anywhere. There is no room for 
aught else. When from out the Infinite 
Mind the creation of the heavens and the 



THE DIVINE ALCHEMY 35 

earth, and all that is therein contained, 
was accomplished, we are told in Scrip- 
ture that "God saw everything that he 
had made, and behold, it was very good." 

What seems evil is only so in appear- 
ance, an illusion, Maya, as the Eastern 
philosophers term it. It is a false state of 
consciousness. We are looking through a 
glass darkly, are wearing colored specta- 
cles, and our world is tinged with the color 
of the glasses through which we look out 
upon it. "Judge not according to the 
appearance, but judge righteous judg- 
ment." 

In order to be able to do this, we must 
purify the consciousness from all supersti- 
tions, imaginations and prejudices, so 
there will be no obstruction to the inner 
sight or Spiritual perception, the light that 
is within, which if the glass, that is the 



36 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

consciousness, through which we look out 
upon the objective world, is unclouded and 
clear, all things will be seen in their 
true aspect. 

Therefore if we would reform the world, 
we should reform ourselves. When that 
has been accomplished, we will find that 
the world is all right. ' ' Better is he that 
ruleth his Spirit than he that taketh a city. " 
When self is conquered, the world is con- 
quered and we have developed the power 
which will enable us to take a city if we 
like, or anything else that we want. 
Christ said ' 'To him that overcometh will 
I grant to sit with me in my throne, even 
as I also overcame, and am set down with 
my Father in his throne/ ' Therefore if 
we would have the same power and be 
in the same sphere with Christ, we 
must overcome as he overcame— we must 



THE DIVINE ALCHEMY 37 

earn the privilege. It is necessary to 
prove our right to our divine inheritance as 
sons of God and co-heirs with Christ, by 
meeting and overcoming or accepting and 
solving every problem that presents itself 
for solution, through which we become 
conscious of our divinity and become 
masters over all conditions and limitations. 
Therefore as the Christ way is along 
the line of least resistance, to be like him 
and attain to the power he had, we should 
take him for our guide and example and 
live and do as he did. From the worldly 
standpoint that would seem, and is believed 
to be, impractical, if not impossible in the 
present stage of civilization, and most 
persons excuse themselves from making 
the attempt, by saying that the world is not 
yet ready for those principles to be made 
practicable. 



38 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

Existence is a school— an educational 
process, and experiences are lessons. When 
the lessons are thoroughly learned in one 
grade, we are promoted to a higher. ' 'All 
things work together for good to them that 
love God." That is to them who are faith- 
ful to their Higher nature and co-operate 
with the divine law that governs all unf old- 
ment or evolution of consciousness. What 
is involved must be evolved, and if we live 
in harmony with the law of our being, 
which is equivalent to letting God's will be 
done in us, we will have found the kingdom 
of heaven, which is Peace, Serenity, and 
Harmony, and everything that is needed 
for our sustenance and development will 
just naturally gravitate to us. "Seek ye 
first the kingdom of God and His right- 
eousness; and all these things shall be 
added unto you." "For your heavenly 



THE DIVINE ALCHEMY 39 

Father knoweth that ye have need of all 
these things.' ' 

Our part then is to consciously and 
willingly co-operate with the law of Life, 
which is God. All growth is the same law 
in manifestation. There is only one Life, 
one Law, and Power, differentiated and 
manifested through all the various forms 
of expression upon all plains of manifesta- 
tion. It is just as necessary for the plant, 
in order to develop its latent possibilities, 
to have the conditions of darkness and 
storm, as those of sunshine and balmy 
breezes. So too with the Soul which has 
to go through the same process in its 
growth or unfoldment into self conscious- 
ness and realization of its divine nature. 
When it has progressed sufficiently in 
its evolution, to know its destiny, it can 
lend its efforts to further this purpose 



40 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

and thereby accelerate the process of 
development. 

When working with the law of evolu- 
tion there can be nothing but harmony, 
for our will has become one with the Infi- 
nite Will which will carry us along of its 
own volition. The destiny of the soul is to 
go forward in eternal progression and any 
efforts of ourselves or others to hinder its 
onward course, will result in friction, 
struggle and suffering. The only way to 
keep from being hurt, is to abandon our- 
selves to the stream and let it bear us on 
its broad motherly bosom to the goal of our 
aspirations. Everything will become easy 
when the struggle is at an end. 

Blessed are the souls who have found 
this true way of life. The Christ speaking 
through Jesus said "I am the Way, the 
Truth and the Life ; No one cometh to the 



THE DIVINE ALCHEMY 41 

Father but through me." That way it is 
that we must find, if we would have rest 
and peace. 

"Ye shall know the Truth and the 
Truth shall make you free." 



42 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

THE LAW OF EQUITY. 

MT is only when we govern our actions 
according to the law of equity, that 
there is the sense of freedom from bondage. 
The law is inexorable and cannot be broken, 
however much we may resist and struggle 
against it. We cannot get away from it, 
for it holds us with a vice-like grip, and 
any attempt to break away from its re- 
quirements results in suffering to ourselves 
and those who are associated with us, which 
will never cease until we yield ourselves to 
its control, when the sense of bondage will 
no longer obtain, and we will come within 
the influence of its beneficent action. 

The law of equity or justice, and the 
law of righteousness and love, are one and 
the same. In perfect justice there is perfect 
love, in perfect love there is perfect justice. 
It is because we are so closely bound to- 



THE LAW OF EQUITY 43 

gether by the law of love or attraction, so 
really and truly of and within each other, 
— the same life, — the same substance, — that 
any attempt to separate, in any degree, one 
from another, causes unhappiness and pain, 
sorrow and suffering. 

Hatred, resentment, and dislike, are 
voluntary or involuntary impulses to break 
away from this law of equity. In our 
ignorance of the law, we think we can iso- 
late or cut off our life, separate ourselves 
or our individual part of the one universal 
life from the whole. 

So we resist, and strain, and pull away, 
with our might, mind, and strength, using 
up our energy in a vainless endeavor to 
break the law of our being, which includes 
all the parts within itself, and which 
could, by no means within our power, be 
changed. 



44 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

The law is immutable. It is utterly- 
impossible to break it, or change its nature. 
Our only chance for rest, peace and harmony, 
is to yield ourselves completely to its re- 
quirements, turn around and go with the 
stream instead of resisting and struggling 
against it. How much easier to let the 
current carry us along than to work our 
passage up stream against it. The one is 
ceaseless effort and hard pulling, the other 
relaxation, ease and rest. 

Our dealings with one another, must 
be according to this universal law of unity, 
equity and order, if we would avoid getting 
hurt ourselves and hurting others. Its de- 
mands are imperative, and will be fulfilled 
to the last jot and tittle. 

We cannot deal unjustly with another 
without suffering the consequences of our 
unjust dealings. We reap the results of 



THE LAW OF EQUITY 45 

our own actions. We can never be free 
from those consequences until we have 
made restitution. The law holds us within 
its iron bands, and the consequences of our 
acts will remain with us until we wipe them 
out by righteous action. 

Thereis a magnetic tie between the 
transgressor and the one wronged, that 
will hold them in a condition of bondage 
until justice and harmony are established 
between them. 

No person who has wronged another, 
in any degree, will ever be free from this 
sense of bondage, until every wrong shall 
be made right. He or she is like Andro- 
meda, chained to the rock, and freedom can 
only come through his or her own will and 
efforts to overcome, and remove all causes 
that have placed him in this condition of 
bondage. 



46 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

The one who has been wronged, if not 
a party to it, if living strictly within the 
law, will be free from the sense of bondage 
that binds and galls the transgressor, be- 
cause living in harmony with it. 

Only in a strict compliance with the law 
of equity is there any real sense of freedom. 

The practice of the Golden Rule "Do 
unto others as ye would that they should do 
unto you " is the only safe rule of conduct. 




EACH ONE IN HIS OWN PLACE 47 

EACH ONE IN HIS OWN PLACE. 
^]NE often hears it said, and most 
inanely, "If I were in your place 
and had your opportunities, I could live the 
divine life and would help others too; it is 
so easy for you;" and, "How I long to do 
the work you are doing, but I have not the 
opportunity/ ' 

Now all persons have equal advantages 
and opportunities, and their field lies all 
about them, but they are overlooking and 
neglecting their own chances in watching 
and admiring some other one who has 
"taken the bull by the horns," who by 
taking advantage of and using the material 
right at hand has worked out his own 
salvation. 

No one can fill my place, I can fill no 
other person's place; we are in the place 
we have made for ourselves; so what folly 



48 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

to waste time and energy bemoaning our 
fate, thinking we are worse off than some 
other one and wishing ourselves in his place. 

The way to begin is to begin, as some 
one has said, and begin right in the place 
where you now are. The environment one 
finds one's self in is just the right environ- 
ment for the time, and is the place we have 
made for ourselves by our past living and 
thinking, for as we sow, so shall we reap. 
It is the inevitable result of the law of 
cause and effect. 

Now, by awakening to a consciousness 
of this fact and then going to work with 
the material at hand, we can change our 
condition and environment to suit us. 

There is no limit to any one's possibili- 
ties, and the way to succeed is to go to work 
with the determination to succeed by over- 
coming any and every obstacle in our way. 



EACH ONE IN HIS OWN PLACE 49 

We can help ourselves and others just 
as effectually in one place as another, but 
we are fitted only, or ready, for the place 
we find ourselves in at the time. Just as 
soon as we are prepared for something 
better the way will open for us. There is 
ever an outward correspondence to the in- 
ward state, or growth in consciousness. 

If we are held in conditions that are 
distasteful to us, it is because we have not 
learned the lesson the experience is intended 
to convey, and we will not make any pro- 
gress by sitting down and bewailing our lot 
in life. 

We can serve God and man just as truly 
in the kitchen as in the pulpit, in the house- 
hold as in the world of business, at the 
counter as on the judge's bench ; in any 
occupation whatsoever, from attending upon 
the wants of an invalid and making his life 



50 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

comfortable and happy, to preaching the 
gospel. 

Acknowledge the Lord in all that you 
do, even the most trifling duty to yourself 
or service to your fellow man. 

Glorify your work, whatever it is, by 
putting your best thought in it. Put the 
best of yourself in your work and then it 
will reflect credit upon you, and as "the 
reward of one duty is the power to fulfill 
another, " you will go on from glory to glory 
as you gain in knowledge and power. 

Begin with the little things and do them 
as well as it is possible for you to do them. 
If you are faithful over a few things, you 
will be made lord over many. 

It is the merest cant in regard to mak- 
ing a specialty of doing good, and that a 
person deserves more credit, and is more 
of a saint for so doing, for all can, and 



EACH ONE IN HIS OWN PLACE 51 

should do good, and be helpful to 
both themselves and others every moment 
of their life, no matter what their station 
or occupation, and by helping others in 
any way whatever, we are helping our- 
selves. 

Of course one who makes the best 
of his opportunities and lives a useful 
and helpful life is more to be respected, 
and will be, naturally, than one who 
weakly yields to unfavorable conditions be- 
cause of lack of courage and determination 
to overcome and rise above them. By 
making an effort and using the power we 
have with our present knowledge, we will 
find that we have gained more power and a 
better understanding to undertake and 
solve the next problem that presents itself. 
It all comes through growth in, or rather, 
an evolution of consciousness. Knowledge 



52 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

is power, and "Ye shall know the truth 
and the truth shall make you free." 

With a knowledge of God's laws we 
can work in harmony with them and thus 
get the benefit of the unity of purpose and 
action. Working with God we have the 
benefit of all the power that God has, be- 
cause we are one with Him and nothing is 
impossible to us, but without Him or 
against Him we are weak indeed, and we 
shall be broken upon the wheel of time, 
until through repeated failures and disap- 
pointments we get wisdom enough to change 
our course to working with the law instead 
of against it. 

The Universal Spirit is working to 
produce harmony everywhere and all 
things work together for good. 




UNITY IN MULTIPLICITY 53 

UNITY IN MULTIPLICITY. 
•UT yourself in relation with the 
thing you want, by realizing your 
oneness with it, then you will attract it. 
When you know that you are it, or that it 
is a part of you, you already possess it. If 
we could realize that all things are within 
us, and not outside of us, there could be no 
separation from the things we feel in need 
of, and wish to come into possession and 
consequent enjoyment of. 

We deprive ourselves of the things we 
want, by our belief in their being outside 
of, and separate from us. If you desire 
love, realize that you are love, then you 
come into conscious possession of it. The 
same with wisdom, knowledge, power, 
health, strength, and so forth. If you wish 
to acquire any material thing, which may 
seem necessary to your comfort and happi- 



54 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

ness, by making yourself one with the thing 
desired, you attract it to you. 

In any lack whatever, if this rule were 
followed, one would come into conscious 
possession of the thing needed. It is 
through the sense of separation from the 
whole, that we suffer from, and feel the 
need of anything. We cut ourselves off, as 
it were, and isolate this particular part of 
ourself from the rest, and thereby interfere 
with, or interrupt the free circulation be- 
tween each and every part of the Grand 
Man, for we are all members of one body. 
I am in the Father and the Father is in me, 
and I am in you and you are in me. 

It is the same spirit manifesting in, and 
through all, from protoplasm up to man, 
God's highest expression of intelligence, 
the only difference being a difference in 
degree. 



UNITY IN MULTIPLICITY 55 

All that comes within the realm of our 
consciousness, is ours. It is our world, our 
kingdom. We are one with it all, and are 
acting in, through, and upon it constantly. 
We are everywhere present, all-knowing 
and all-powerful. 

As I am one with the whole, anything 
that affects any part of the whole, either 
for good or ill, affects me. 

"In complete unity a part possesses 
the whole as the whole possesses every part; 
and in this way human life is tending to- 
wards the image of the Supreme Unity; 
for as our life becomes more spiritual by 
capacity of thought, and joy therein, posses- 
sion tends to become more universal." 

I cannot live to myself alone, separate 
from the whole. In order to improve my 
own condition, I must strive to improve the 
condition of every living creature, for as 



56 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

every form of life is a part of myself, I can 
reach a state of harmony, or heaven, which 
means health, peace and plenty, only 
through the whole body, that is all creation, 
coming into the same realization. 

So in helping any one in any way, to 
uplift them and improve their condition, I 
am helping myself, or this particular part 
of, or manifestation of myself which is 
vitally connected with the whole. This 
realization of union, or oneness with the 
Supreme Being is a great thing, the great- 
est in the world, and the most important. 
It is the foundation of all success, and the 
means of liberation from every condition 
that would enslave or limit us in any way. 
It is freedom, and we will never be satisfied 
or happy, until we have attained to it. A 
slave cannot be happy, and every one is a 
slave until he has freed himself from any, 



UNITY IN MULTIPLICITY 57 

and every limitation, that is, until he has 
learned to control conditions, instead of 
being controlled by them. While there is 
any sense of lack, there is subjectivity to a 
condition. 

By coming into a realization of unity, 
or at-one-ment with all things, we know 
that we possess all things, and then all 
limitations will cease. I and the Father 
are one, what the Father hath is mine. 

I am God and God is me. There is 
only God. 



58 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 



VOICES. 

HERE are many voices by which 
man is influenced and governed, 



to a greater or less extent, but only one 
true and infallible guide, which is the voice 
of The Infinite One speaking to His child 
through the voice of intuition. It is direct 
and sure and an infallible guide when 
listened to and obeyed. It is the ^ * still 
small voice' ' that can be heard only by 
withdrawing from the outer world of noise 
and sense and retiring to the innermost, 
the center of our being, which is the 
"secret place of the Most High. ,, Then 
when all the outer senses have been stilled, 
we can enter into conscious communion 
with God, our Father, and get direct guid- 
ance from Him. 

Intuition is the direct voice of God 
speaking to the soul of man, His child, 



VOICES 59 

upon whatever plane he may be in his 
evolution or unfoldment. 

The voice of conscience differs from the 
voice of intuition in that it is a matter of 
growth or unfoldment of consciousness and 
comes through education. It is the stand- 
ard he has formed concerning right and 
wrong through his highest conception of 
Truth, Justice, and Love and is continually 
enlarging and advancing as he grows in 
knowledge and wisdom. In a low degree 
of unfoldment he may conscientiously act 
in ways that later on will appear in an 
entirely different light to him and cause him 
to change his views and actions in accord- 
ance with his greater knowledge and 
understanding. 

However if he would be absolutely 
true to his convictions of right, he would 
do the best he knew and get his reward 



60 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

in an enlarged conception of what is 
right. 

The trouble is in regard to the voices 
of Conscience and Intuition, we do not listen 
to them, or if we do, we are not absolutely- 
true to the messages they bring, because 
of the other voices of desire, inclination, 
etc., that obtrude themselves upon our 
consciousness, causing such disturbance and 
confusion in the mind that we are at a loss 
to know which is the true leading. Many- 
take these voices of desire, that are born 
through a selfish longing for gratification 
on the animal or material planes, as the 
true voice and are led by them into all sorts 
of excesses through which they are brought 
into great tribulation, then they lose faith 
and say they have been deceived and that 
there is no God, no guiding hand to lead 
them; but after awhile they gather up 



VOICES 61 

sufficient courage to start in again on some 
other lead, thinking they surely have it now, 
only to be plunged into another sea of 
trouble. 

Thus they keep working around on the 
surface, trying to find satisfaction in things 
that will not satisfy, meeting with disap- 
pointment after disappointment, seeking 
here and seeking there, all the time getting 
nearer and nearer to the center until finally 
they are there, home with God where only 
true satisfaction is to be found. 

Then they have the true basis from 
which to work, they have landed on the 
rock of everlasting truth and will be guided 
consciously by the Spirit of Truth in all 
their actions. Everything they do will be 
from the right standpoint and will bring 
satisfaction. 

There will be rest and peace— " the 



62 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

peace that passeth understanding/ ' and 
nothing in the outer world can disturb or 
annoy. They are resting on the solid rock 
of truth and though in the midst of chaos 
and confusion, outwardly, can look on 
calmly, and undisturbed, knowing that all 
things are working for harmony and per- 
fection, which will be arrived at in due time. 




INSPIRATION 63 

INSPIRATION. 
What it is and How Unfolded. 

|PIRIT (Divine Intelligence) is the 
primal cause or origin of all in- 
spiration through whatever channel it is 
manifested, or expressed. 

It may be direct or indirect, primary 
or secondary, as from the higher self or 
consciousness to the lower, and from incar- 
nate or excarnate intelligences, through 
suggestion or by obsession, or hypnotic 
control. 

One may be inspired through the sense 
of hearing, by listening to fine music, such 
as has been given us by the inspired souls, 
who have become masters in that line ; also 
through the sight, by viewing a beautiful 
landscape, mountains etc ; or in looking at 
a body of water like the ocean, a great 



64 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

waterfall like Niagara, or at Nature in any 
of her wonderful manifestations. 

Then again the inspiration may come 
through some production in the world of 
art, such as a fine painting, a piece of 
statuary, or fine architecture. 

It may be received objectively or sub- 
jectively according as one places himself 
in relation with the seen or unseen realms 
of thought. 

The receptivity may be cultivated or 
unfolded through desire and aspiration; and 
meditation in the silence, by stilling all 
action of the mind on the objective side as 
much as possible, letting the mind become 
tranquil and placid, like a summer lake, 
when it lies as in a dream, calm and 
untroubled by any passing breeze, absorb- 
ing the surrounding beauty, reflected from 
sky and hilltop, tree and plain. 



INSPIRATION 65 

All the emotions should be under con- 
trol, and the will in perfect obedience to, 
and in harmony with, the Divine Will, in 
order to get the best results, pure or Divine 
Inspiration. 



66 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

THE POWER WITHIN. 

jlS5p|HE potentiality of all things is with- 
^^^1 in us, and our work is to evolve 
what God has involved. He has created 
us in his image and likeness, of the same 
nature and substance, and given us 
dominion. 

Now our part in the Divine Plan, is to 
manifest, express and use, what has been 
provided and given us. God has forever 
done His part towards us, and an eternity 
of praying could make no difference in His 
attitude to us. We must work out our 
own salvation. 

Peace, Power, and Plenty, are resident 
within us. These are our capital, and stock 
in trade. As we give of our stores, we re- 
ceive, good measure, pressed down and 
running over. With what measure we 



THE POWER WITHIN 67 

mete, it shall be measured to us again. 
Only as we give, can we receive. It is the 
investment of our capital that will give the 
increase. If we keep it stored up within 
ourselves, it is idle, and unproductive, like 
seedcorn lying in the granary, which must 
be planted in the ground and nurtured by 
sunshine and rain, in order to multiply and 
bring forth of its kind. 

While it is kept in storage there can be 
no increase or growth, and in course of 
time disintegration will take place and the 
constitutents return to the source from 
whence they were derived. 

All things are within us and we should 
look there for the satisfaction of every need. 
Disappointment, sorrow and suffering, will 
be our portion until we learn this great 
truth, and seek satisfaction from the only 
true source, where alone it is to be found. 



68 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

While looking to outside sources for our 
supplies, we are not recognizing the power 
within our own souls. In fact we are recog- 
nizing weakness within and power without, 
unto which we are subject. 

We will be slaves to circumstances just 
as long as we continue in this attitude of 
mind. When we come into a realization of 
the truth of the Power within us to over- 
come and control all things and conditions, 
then we are no longer subject to outward 
things, but Masters and Rulers. 

All things obey us— the Universe is at 
our command. We have dominion over 
things and can verily and indeed, be equal 
with Christ, at the right hand of the 
Father. 

"To him that overcometh will I grant 
to sit with me in my throne even as I also 



THE POWER WITHIN 69 

overcame, and am set down with my father 
in his throne." 

"He that overcometh shall inherit all 
things ; and I will be his God, and he shall 
be my son." 



70 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 



HEALTH. 
EFORE a person can have permanent 
health he must have overcome fear 




of any and every kind ; anger in all its 
phases, such as impatience, annoyance, 
irritability, etc., jealousy, hatred, resent- 
ment, in fact selfishness in all its forms. 

He must have overcome the world, that 
is, his own kingdom. He must have 
acquired perfect self control. Health is a 
state of consciousness to be realized only 
through growth or unfoldment. 

It is the kingdom of heaven or harmony 
within. 

To have no fear and to keep an even 
mind under all circumstances is to have 
health. One should be master in his own 
kingdom, having perfect control over each 
subject. 

He should be able to control his think- 



HEALTH 71 

ing so that only constructive thoughts, such 
as are health giving and upbuilding should 
be allowed. He should first find himself, 
then begin the work of reconstruction by 
correcting any and every habit that may 
have been formed that is detrimental to his 
health and character. It may take years to 
irradicate all the weeds from the garden, 
but if he undertakes the work with a deter- 
mination to succeed, and is faithful and 
persevering, he will find himself gaining 
ground each day as he overcomes one thing 
after another. After each effort, he will 
find that he has increased his power to meet 
and overcome the next thing that needs his 
attention, and with each success there will 
be greater faith, which will continue to 
enlarge as he gains in power and wisdom. 
Govern and treat the body in the same 
manner that you would a child and you will 



72 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

have corresponding results. If wisely and 
lovingly trained and governed, it will yield 
a loving obedience to your slightest demand, 
but if left to its own devices, it will very 
likely contract all sorts of undesirable 
habits, which if continued in, will result in 
its becoming entirely unmanageable, like 
many a wayward child that is born into the 
world and grows up without proper educa- 
tion and training, by reason of which he is 
bound to get into trouble and bring suffer- 
ing upon himself and sorrow to all with 
whom he is connected. 

The body is the child of the Soul— its 
offspring into the physical or objective 
world, and is reached and controlled through 
the mind, which is present and within each 
and every atom of the body, with its seat 
of government in the brain. The Soul is 
the rightful governor and sovereign. It is 



HEALTH 73 

the operator and user of the mind and 
body— the power behind the throne, as it 
were, which it created to express itself with 
and through, to the external world, but if 
the body or human consciousness; which 
belongs to the body, is allowed to do its own 
sweet will and take the reigns of govern- 
ment into its own hands, setting up a sepa- 
rate kingdom, it is not doing the will of its 
creator and projector, the soul, and through 
its disobedience, or nonconformity, brings 
sin, sickness and suffering upon itself. It 
seemingly cuts itself off from its Infinite 
source of supply, and limits itself in accord- 
ance with its own limited views and mis- 
taken conceptions which have been formed 
through false education and beliefs founded 
upon the apparent instead of the real. 

Plato says, "The body, as I conceive it, 
is not the instrument with which they, the 



74 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

physicians, cure the body ; but they cure 
the body with the mind, and the body which 
is, or has become sick, can cure nothing. 

" The eye cannot be cured without the 
rest of the body, nor the body without the 
mind." 

' ' The body is reached through the mind. 
Its agents are not drugs but ideas/ ' 

" What know ye not that your body is 
the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in 
you, which ye have of God, and ye are not 
your own." 

"If I can only realize it, I can call to 
my aid all the power there is in the Uni- 
verse. Behind every man stands He who 
fainteth not." 



METAPHYSICAL HEALING 75 



METAPHYSICAL HEALING. 
Dear Friend: 

In order that you may receive the full 
benefit of the metaphysical method of treat- 
ment, it is necessary for you to have some 
understanding of it. I infer that you, as 
well as many others who have become in- 
terested to the extent of taking treatment, 
have not an altogether clear conception of 
it. Many seem to think, like the prac- 
titioners of Materia Medica, we work 
directly upon effects, when, in fact, an 
entirely opposite method is pursued. 

We do not deal with effects at all, but 
act from a purely metaphysical standpoint. 
The less recognition given to them the 
better, for a reality is made of that which 
is recognized. Vitality and power is given 
to anything we make a reality of. There- 
fore we leave the effect, which is the legiti- 



76 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

mate outcome of some interior cause, and 
really a safety valve, to work itself out, and 
instead of taking means to alleviate, or 
check it directly, which would be both 
unwise, and contrary to the operations of 
nature, we seek for the cause of which the 
effect is the product. 

Effect follows cause as naturally and 
inevitably as night follows day. If there 
are poisonous secretions generated in the 
body, they must be eliminated thereform, 
as a means of self preservation, and such 
action in itself is beneficial. 

Now we endeavor to find the cause of 
the disturbance, which we believe to be 
mental, and remove that, then a state of 
equilibrum, resulting in ease, comfort, and 
health, is established. A new set of vibra- 
tions is set up, and the result is harmony, 
and harmony is health. 



METAPHYSICAL HEALING 77 

If we are out of harmony, we are not 
in vibration with the Infinite, and we 
become diseased. 

It is impossible to separate cause and 
effect, as it is contrary to Infinite Law. "Be 
not deceived; God is not mocked: for what- 
soever a man soweth, that shall he also 
reap." 

It has been discovered that all causa- 
tion is in the realm of mind;-in the thoughts 
and beliefs, therefore it is necessary to 
change the beliefs, or state of consciousness 
which must necessarily be through an educa- 
tional process. Now an education in any 
line cannot be acquired all at once, as it 
would not be in accordance with the law of 
evolution governing all unfoldment; but 
when we desire it, and put ourselves in the 
line of teaching, we co-operate with the law 
and our progress is accelerated. If we would 



78 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

learn, we should be like little children, open 
minded and trustful, for ' 'Verily I say unto 
you, Whosoever shall not receive the king- 
dom of God as a little child shall in no wise 
enter therein/ ' 

When we seek knowledge, we find, and 
come into possession of the Truth, which 
makes us free. This knowledge which frees 
us, can be acquired both consciously and 
sub-consciously, verbally, and telepath- 
ically by means of the unuttered thought. 
With both the spoken word and the 
unspoken, a spiritual force or emanation, 
is conveyed from the teacher to the pupil, 
the physician to the patient, which gives 
vitality to it. The more the person realizes 
the truth of what he is endeavoring to 
express, or impart to another, the more 
power there will be in it, consequently the 
more convincing to the receiver. One can 



METAPHYSICAL HEALING 79 

speak with authority of that which he knows 
to be true. There is a great difference 
between knowing and believing. One may- 
assert with great positiveness something 
which he believes to be true, which may, in 
fact, be entirely false, and therein is the 
beginning of all inharmony, disorder and 
disease. It is the seat and cause of all the 
ills that humanity is prone to, and here is 
the key to the whole situation. 

We believe a thing to be true which is not 
so in reality, and then hold on to it with a 
death-like grip, and the unhappy con- 
sequences of this false position follow as a 
natural result. Our whole unregenerate, 
sub-conscious mind is filled with these false 
beliefs, which must be eradicated before 
we can be free from their ill effects. It is 
necessary to go through the process of re- 



80 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

generation. The false state of conscious- 
ness must be changed into the true. We 
must become spiritually minded. " For to 
be carnally minded is death; but to be 
spiritually minded is life and peace/ ' An 
imbittered state of mind from whatever 
cause, long continued grief, irritability, 
etc. , will produce acidity and other poison- 
ous fluids in the body. Thus the blood 
becomes vitiated, and weakness and pain, 
in some form, is the consequence. 

Rheumatism, neuralgia, and a long train 
of kindred ailments can be directly traced 
to this cause. If it is long continued, a 
chronic condition is set up, which is merely 
a habit established in the sub-conscious 
mind, acting automatically. There is then 
an interaction between mind and body and 
they act and react upon each other. 



METAPHYSICAL HEALING 81 

Now Love is the remedy, the great 
sweetener of the mind and body. It pro- 
duces harmony, and harmony is equilibrium 
—health. 

This must first be established in the 
mind through belief and trust in the Infinite 
Love, and Omnipresent Good, then the 
practice of love and self forgetfulness 
towards others. 

If we would attract love to ourselves, we 
must feel it for others, and make ourselves 
lovable ; and that should be our whole con- 
cern to love more and more, and think less 
and less of self ; then we will grow sweet 
and wholesome, and fragrant as a flower. 
The blood will be pure and rich, and filled 
with vitality, and, in short, all things will 
become new, for the former things will 
have passed away. 



82 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

' 'And God shall wipe away all tears from 
their eyes ; and there shall be no more 
death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither 
shall there be any more pain : for the 
former things are passed away." 



AFFIRMATIONS FOR FREEDOM 83 

AFFIRMATIONS FOR FREEDOM. 
From the Delusion of Evil. 

"Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind " 

Wffilfjf WILL to change my mind from the 
HjiD dream of delusion that I have been 
dwelling in to the Truth that is. 

I refuse longer to believe in the reality 
of evil, in poverty, in sickness, in weak- 
ness and incompetency ; in sorrow and 
disappointment ; in failure and in fear. 

None of these things belong to me. I 
have lived in a nightmare of horrors all 
along, believing it to be reality. I now, 
once and for all time, break the bonds 
which have bound me. I dispel the clouds 
which have surrounded me, shutting out 
the Light of Truth. Henceforth I will 
manifest the Truth of my being, which is 
that I am the Son of God, made in the 
image and likeness of my Father — perfect 



84 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

as he is perfect. I am unchangeable being, 
always well, always happy, always suc- 
cessful, always prosperous. I am free and 
unlimited ; serene and unmoved by any- 
thing that may occur. No person or thing 
has any power to harm, annoy, or make me 
unhappy in any way whatever. 

I have the wisdom of the Father and 
can express it ; therefore I am not 
ignorant. 

I have the love of the Father, and am, 
therefore, loving and lovely, I have the 
strength of the Father, and am strong 
with His strength. I am perfect un- 
changeable being now. I am rich, healthy 
and happy always. I have all things richly 
to enjoy now and evermore. 

I am never weary, never sick, never 
afraid, and have never been so. All Power 
is mine. I refuse to dwell in the shadows 



AFFIRMATIONS FOR FREEDOM 85 

of unreality any longer. I am a child of 
the Light and am dwelling in the Light of 
Truth. I am one with the Father, and am 
in possession of all things now, and I will 
to express, and manifest in the material 
world that which I am, perfection in every 
way ; harmony, peace, wisdom, strength, 
power, love, health, confidence, courage, 
serenity and composure ; beauty of life and 
form. I will to be a point of radiation for 
all that I am. 



86 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

THE LAW OF ATTRACTION. 

|jgg|lHE law of attraction operates upon 
(S^y^l all planes of manifestation, from 
the lower kingdoms of nature to the higher. 
Without it there could be no manifestation 
of things or forms, nothing would come into 
visibility. It is the law of creation ; the 
force that draws together from out the 
Universal Substance, underlying all forms, 
atoms of a similar nature, having an affinity 
for one another, and the stronger the affinity 
the greater the coherance. 

In the mineral world the affinity is very 
great causing the atoms to cohere so tenaci- 
ously in the forms of such solid substances 
that only by the application of great force 
can they be separated. 

Science tells us that every thing in the 
material world is composed of atoms in con- 
stant motion or vibration, and that none of 



THE LAW OF ATTRACTION 87 

the atoms touch, or are in actual contact, 
however solid the substance. How great 
therefore, must be the attraction which 
holds them together in such solid material 
forms. This tendency on the lower planes 
for atoms of a like nature to be attracted 
to, and cohere around a common center, is 
recognized on the higher planes of con- 
sciousness as love. It is that subtle force 
which unites individuals, who are congenial, 
in the bonds of friendship, etc. The greater 
the congeniality, the stronger the attach- 
ment. 

As the Spiritual or heavenly attraction 
becomes stronger, the natural or earthly is 
overcome, and becomes less so. The law 
of the Spirit, or Christ, overcomes the law 
of the natural or physical. The law of 
gravitation tends to draw one downward to 
the earth. The law of levitation through 



SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 



overcoming the law of gravitation, causes 
one to rise upward. These laws in the 
natural world correspond to the two natures 
in man, the human and divine. 

The law of Christ overcomes the law of 
sin, sickness and death, which pertain to 
the natural man only. When the animal 
human nature has become transformed into 
the divine human, there will be no more 
sickness, no more sorrow, no more suffer- 
ing. 




PEACE 89 

PEACE. 
IE ACE comes as a result of victory 
over something. It is a state or 
condition that has been gained through 
overcoming — a state of harmony that has 
been brought about through reducing 
chaos to order. All things are working 
together for good, for peace, for harmony, 
and when love has had its perfect way 
there will be universal peace, "A consuma- 
tion devoutly to be wished." 

The process of becoming or evolving, 
is what disturbs and mystifies most per- 
sons. They become involved in the process 
and thereby lose sight of the end and 
object to be attained. They are as blind as 
bats, and become bewildered, and get en- 
tangled in the meshes of the net of appear- 
ances, seeing no way out, and no purpose 
in it all. 



90 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

They are the pessimists of the world who 
see everything through a glass darkly— 
think that the world is growing worse 
instead of better, and all humanity tending 
towards destruction. They see nothing 
but the world of appearances— are lost in 
the illusions of the senses and imagine that 
is all. They do not realize God in His en- 
tirety—that He is omnipresent and uni- 
versal, and that the universe is an expres- 
sion of Himself— that He is working in and 
through all things. Each one seems to 
think that the plan of the universe should 
be worked out according to his own mental 
conception of what is right, and as a con- 
sequence is so burdened with the responsi- 
bility of his self imposed task that as a 
usual thing he breaks down under the 
strain, and the result is nervous prostra- 
tion. 



PEACE 91 

How much easier to let God attend to 
His own business and develop His plan ac- 
cording to His own ideals. It will be done 
anyway and we only get ourselves into 
trouble by interfering, like Don Quixote in 
his fight with the windmills. 

If one would only find the purpose in 
every experience, God's purpose, I mean, 
and then turn about and co-operate with Him 
instead of quarreling with His methods, he 
would see the necessity, use, and beauty of 
it, and find an enjoyment, satisfaction and 
peace that could never be attained while 
believing that all the processes of life and 
growth in civilization are wrong and need 
correcting, and that the whole responsi- 
bility of reforming society and govern- 
ments rest upon himself and those whom 
he may induce by his arguments to see 
things in the same light that he does. 



92 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 



THE SPIRITUAL SUN. 
JggSgjHE I AM that I am is the Spiritual 
tjj^yjj/] Sun of my being, and center of 
the Spiritual Universe, corresponding to 
the physical solar system. 

The center of my universe is in me. 
As far as I am concerned there is nothing 
outside of me — that is, my consciousness. 
All the world I know is that within my 
consciousness. My world enlarges with 
the growth of my consciousness. As far 
as my consciousness extends there am I. 
To the uttermost limits of my Spiritual 
vision transcending time and space, where- 
ever my thought can travel, all is within 
me. Suns and stars, planets and systems, 
belong to me to the extent that I can com- 
prehend them. 

I shall go steadily on until I reach my 
highest ideals, in spite of all apparent 



THE SPIRITUAL SUN 93 

failures. I shall eventually have great 
success and prosperity. Nothing can pre- 
vent it. I am marching steadily on to the 
apotheosis which is as inevitable as the 
plunging of the waters over the precipice 
at Niagara. Nothing can withstand the 
pressure of the mighty force that is im- 
pelling me on to the culmination of my 
aspirations. All obstacles must give way 
before its irresistable power. 

The whole power of the Infinite is 
back of me, impelling me on. 



94 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

STATEMENT OF BEING. 

("I AM") 

I am the Sun of God— the center of my 
existence. 

I can manifest what I elect or choose to 
manifest. 

I can, and therefore will, because I 
choose, manifest Love, Wisdom, Power, 
Strength, Goodness, Grandeur, Dignity, 
Nobility of Character, Courage, and 
Confidence. 

I can, and therefore will, manifest Health. 

I can, and therefore will, attract to myself 
whatever I desire. I have the wisdom 
and judgement to desire only that which 
is for my best good, and which will give 
the greatest and truest satisfaction. 

I can, and therefore will, be successful and 
prosperous in any way I choose. 

I have found my real self, my True Center, 
the — " I AM "—the Source of my exist- 
ence, the Center of my Being, through 
which is the open door into the Universal 



STATEMENT OF BEING 95 

Fountain of Life, Strength, Health, 
Supply. 

Henceforth I shall want for nothing ; as I 
know where to look for the satisfaction 
of every need. Therefore I am calm, 
serene, confident, — unmoved by any 
" appearance " of lack or inharmony of 
any description whatever. 

I will rejoice and give thanks ; for I have 
found the ' ' Elixir of Life, " the fountain 
of Youth, Health and Beauty; the 
Source of Supply for all my material 
needs, as well as the Heavenly Manna 
on which my Soul shall feed. 

"My Soul, wait thou only upon God; for 
my expectation is from Him. He only is 
my rock and my salvation ; He is my 
defence ; I shall not be moved. In God 
is my salvation and my glory ; the rock 
of my strength, and my refuge, is in 
God." Ps. 62:5-7. 



96 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 



I 



AN I AM REALIZATION. 

I AM I. 

MAKE my own life, my own experi- 
ences. I choose my own way, 
make my own laws. I am the ruler of my 
mind and body, and I can keep them under 
perfect control. They are the instruments 
that I have made to express myself in, and 
through, to the outside world, and I have 
the power to keep them in perfect order. 

As I created them by means of my 
own intelligence and power through the 
use of the same, I can maintain them in a 
perfectly healthful and normal condition. 

My body is my tabernacle, the temple 
of the living God. I constructed that 
temple and I can disintergrate or destroy 
it, either by neglect, through the with- 
drawal of my sustaining power, or through 
choice. 



AN I AM REALIZATION 97 

It is dependent upon my will for its 
existence. I attract and draw to me the 
elements with which to build, nourish, and 
sustain it by my choice and will. I select 
the kind of material that will build the sort 
of body, or temple, that I desire, suitable 
for the work I expect to do with and 
through it. 

If I desire to express music to the 
world, I construct the kind of body and 
temperament that will best enable me to 
do so. If outpicturing beautiful ideals, 
then I make the artistic temperament. If 
I want to express Divine Love, then the 
Christ temperament, and so on from the 
lowest to the highest expressions of life 
and intelligence. Any line of work or ex- 
pression I choose, is followed out to a cul- 
mination or conclusion, then my work is 
finished in that direction. 



98 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

It is the process of the kernel, then 
the stalk, then the full corn in the ear. 

I then take up some other line of work 
that will enable me to express myself in a 
new or untried way, and follow that out in 
the same way, to a culmination or state of 
completion ; and so on through all eternity, 
continually expressing myself in one way 
or another. 

I shall continue to express the Self or 
God in increasing degree and perfection. 

I have all of God to express, and all 
eternity in which to do it ; and as God is 
illimitable and eternity endless, I shall 
never want for occupation, but shall go on 
from glory to glory, according to the de- 
gree of the perfection of expression. I 
may choose the goal, and work steadily 
and unfalteringly towards it by means of 
the straight and narrow way, or I may 



AN I AM REALIZATION 99 

procrastinate and step aside into the by- 
paths to enjoy the pleasures of the senses 
for awhile. 

I may, apparently, even lose my way, 
and wander about in the jungle meeting 
with the wild beasts of despair, despond- 
ency, etc. , until I am obliged to reach out for 
some angel of deliverance to lead me out 
into the open, and start me on the road 
again. But it matters not how many times 
I may turn aside and get lost, the law of 
aspiration will ever lead me on " o'er moor 
and fen o'er crag and torrent " till I reach 
the goal of my aspirations. Nothing can 
hinder my reaching it eventually, for I 
have chosen so to do, and have thereby set 
the forces into operation that will co-oper- 
ate with, and assist me to bring it to pass. 
I have made the law, my word is creative, 
and I am subject to the law I have made 



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100 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

for myself, because I am the creator of my 
own laws and consequent conditions and 
environment, by right of my divine sover- 
eignty the I Am that I Am. 

I am free to choose my path and experi- 
ences in life if I use my divine right of in- 
heritance, and sell not my birthright to 
another. 

It is useless to argue with, or try to 
convince a person, who has shut the door 
of the mind by determining that he will see 
only that which he has determined upon, 
regardless of any evidence that may be 
brought to bear upon the question under 
consideration. It is the position of ignor- 
ance and bigotry— a wilful closing of the 
door of the mind to truth. Such a person 
by such an attitude of mind, has placed 
himself beyond the reach of help. He has 
builded a wall about him that he only, by 



AN I AM REALIZATION 101 

his own will, can remove. In this position 
he is cut off from all influences that would 
serve to enlighten him, and enable him to 
discriminate between good and evil— the 
true and the false. 

He is self-elected to remain in 
ignorance. 



102 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

SOME QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 

RELATING TO 

METAPHYSICAL SUBJECTS. 

Question 1. 
"Explain the difference between sensa- 
tion and sensory, sensitiveness and the 
Solar Plexus, feeling and perception ? " 

Answer 1. 

Sensation is feeling, becoming aware of 
something through contact or the sense of 
touch. Sensory is the function, or system 
which receives and conveys the message to 
the brain. It acts as agent between body 
and brain, or mind rather. 

Sensitiveness is susceptibility to im- 
pressions from without, — Soul feeling. The 
Solar Plexus is the center of the nervo- 
psychic system, and the seat of feeling, 



METAPHYSICAL SUBJECTS 103 

or the emotions, and generation, and the 
connecting link between the natural and 
spiritual man. 

Feeling is consciousness of an impres- 
sion received either objectively or subject- 
ively. Perception is awareness of some- 
thing through the spiritual or inner sight 
or vision. 

Question 2, 

" What is the Intuition ? How related 
to the mind and the subjective states ? " 

Answer 2. 

Intuition is a function of the spiritual 
nature ; an inner spiritual sense ; the still 
small voice of the spirit; the oracle of 
Divinity. The mind is acted upon and 
illumined by Deity— the God within— the 
Higher Self, by means of, and through the 



104 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

voice of intuition, and the mind affects the 
subjective states. 

Question 3. 
" Explain why the square symbolizes 
matter and manifestation, and the sphere 
symbolizes spirit and realization ? " 

Answer 3. 
The square symbolizes the lower quarter- 
nary or four lower principles of the septen- 
ary man, also the four corresponding ele- 
ments of nature— Fire, Air, Water, Earth. 
The Sphere is a symbol of Spirit and signifies 
the unit which represents wholeness, com- 
pleteness.. It symbolizes eternal life and 
truth, that which is un-create, has no 
beginning and no end. 

Question 4. 
"What is done when a psychiscope is 
delineated ?" 



METAPHYSICAL SUBJECTS 105 

Answer U. 
A psychiscope is a written delineation 
of character obtained through divination. 

Question 5. 
" What are the differences between in- 
spiration and illumination ?" 

Answer 5. 
Inspiration is the inbreathing or inflow- 
ing of Divine Intelligence, and comes in 
response to aspiration. Illumination is be- 
ing aware of the Self; having Christ or God 
consciousness ; a clear perception of Truth ; 
knowing and dwelling in the Light of Truth. 

Question 6. 
" What is the best method to pursue to 
realize inspiration, Divine clairvoyance, 
clairaudience, clairsentience, psychometry? 
Give some illustrations.' * 



106 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

Answer 6. 
The law of aspiration will bring to us 
whatever we desire. Practice going into 
the Silence and being receptive to the thing 
desired, and it will be brought into mani- 
festation. First aspire, then concentrate, 
then become receptive. Still the outer 
senses and let the inner, Spiritual faculties 
become manifest. 

Illustration No. 1. 

Once, some years ago, while sitting 
in the silence for my own unfoldment, I 
asked to know something more definitely 
of God. I waited and listened in expecta- 
tion, and in response I had a clear vision of 
what I have learned since to be the akasa, 
or Mother-ether, the life stuff in its pure 
essence. 



METAPHYSICAL SUBJECTS 107 

Elustration No. 2. 
At another time I concentrated on my 
higher Self until it became objectified as a 
Spiritual form, standing before me. As I 
was contemplating it, suddenly I became 
aware that it was the Lord ; then, that it 
was the Father — my Father — the creator of 
my mind and body— my existence. In 
other words, I became conscious of my real 
self, the creator and creation. 

Elustration No. 3. 
I have had much teaching from the 
Spirit in regard to the Christ, to open my 
consciousness to the truth that the Christ is 
within me instead of without, as I had been 
in the habit of thinking. On one occasion, 
I saw Christ in the form of Jesus, with 
hands folded over his heart, and head 
bowed, waiting with Infinite patience to be 



108 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

recognized ; then I heard these words : 
" Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: 
if any man hear my voice, and open the 
door, I will come in to him, and will sup 
with him, and he with me." In my joy, I 
reached out in Spirit and said : "Come in 
Lord, come quickly and never leave me 
more." As I said this, the form vanished, 
and seemed to enter my body, 

I could give numerous instances of 
similar experiences. These teachings came 
to me from the Spirit, before I had heard 
of anything of the kind from any outside 

source. 

Question 7. 
"What can you say of the law of the 
Silence and the Oracle of the voice ?" 

Answer 7. 
The Law of the Silence puts one en 
rapport with the Higher Self, or the I AM, 



METAPHYSICAL SUBJECTS 109 



through which is access to the realm of truth 
and reality, and enables one to hear the 
Voice with its message of truth. 

Question 8. 

"Explain telepathy, suggestion, con- 
trol, inhibition, obsession, possession, 
adeptship." 

Answer 8. 

Telepathy is mental telegraphy, thought 
transference ; suggestion being influenced 
by some person or object ; control being 
under subjection to an external power; 
inhibition going within — becoming invisible; 
obsession is being dominated by an idea, or 
some external influence ; possession being 
under the dominion, or control, of some 
influence; wholly under subjection and 



110 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

control ; adeptship is knowledge of occult 
laws and forces, and by virtue of that 
knowledge the use and control of them. 

Question 9. 

"Give the difference between the 
medium, Seer, sorcerer, necromancer, hiero- 
phant, and adept ? " 

Answer 9. 
A medium is one who is under the con- 
trol of a will other than his own, either 
through submission or subjection ; A Seer, 
one who has foresight and insight— pro- 
phetic sight— a prophet. A sorcerer uses 
his knowledge of occult laws for evil pur- 
poses with the help of evil disposed spirits— 
practices black magic. A necromancer pro- 
duces psychical phenomena by means of, 
and with the aid of, excarnate spirits— the 



METAPHYSICAL SUBJECTS 111 

phenomena of Spiritism. An hierophant 
is a God conscious person, and is a Master 
of occult laws and forces, and makes use 
of his knowledge and powers for the better- 
ment and upliftment of humanity. An 
adept is one who has become proficient in 
the use of occult powers. 

Question 10. 
"Explain how each one is led, and 
what kind of leading is the best." 

Answer 10. 
One is either led by desire of the mor- 
tal on the lower plane, or by aspiration for 
the highest good. The latter is best, as the 
benefits derived are more real, lasting and 
satisfactory. 

Question 11. 
"What is ocultism and mysticism?" 



112 SPIRITUAL REALIZATIONS 

Answer 11. 
Ocultism is a system of knowledge of 
esoteric truths — a knowledge of underlying 
truths, which are covered and hidden by 
the letter. Mysticism initiation into the 
most secret and mysterious knowledge re- 
lating to the Infinite ; the attainment and 
expression of Divine Wisdom. 

Question 12. 
* ' What is the difference between Sug- 
gestive Therapeutics, Christian Science and 
Divine Science, as applied to healing ? " 

Answer 12. 
Suggestive Therapeutics is healing 
through mental suggestion; Christian 
Science through the belief that there is no 
matter, therefore, no body, and conse- 
quently no disease. Sickness and disease 



METAPHYSICAL SUBJECTS 113 

are false beliefs, mere hallucinations ; all is 
Spirit— all is God, therefore there is no evil. 
Mental Science is treatment of the mind by- 
means of the thought forces. Divine 
Science through an awakening and realiza- 
tion of the God within. 



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